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openHow would you describe this figure from Mexican Folklore?
El Charro Negro:
•A legend that originated in Mexican folklore from remote places of Tlaxcala, Veracruz, Puebla and Hidalgo; to date the outskirts of the metropolitan area of Mexico City and even in the interior neighborhood of Coyoacán.
•He usually appears at dusk in streets and lonely sidewalks, always looking for a pedestrian to whom to offer gold coins, which he takes out of a small bag that he always carries around the waist.
•He’s a rather tall, elegant-looking man in impeccable black suit made up of a jacket, a shirt, tight pants and a wide-brimmed hat wanders in the depths of the night in the lonely stretches that join the little things that unite the small towns of rural Mexico on the back of a huge, jet-black horse.
•In one variation, he’s actually a demonic figure.
•His supposed backstory is that he once came from humble origins. He was poor but extremely vain and greedy. One day that greed got the better of him and he sold his soul to the Devil in exchange for infinite wealth. However he soon began to regret his decision. The people around him didn’t like him, they liked his money. He decided he was gonna escape all of that. Dressed in an elegant black suit and wide-brimmed hat, he packed his bags and tried to leave town. However, the Devil caught up to him quicker than expected and collected his debt. Ever since then, he looks for someone to take his place in hell.
•He’s known for manipulating and seducing women.
openNot Your Fault But You're Responsible
A character is causing problems for everyone else through no fault of their own, or rather, they had no intention of causing problems but it's still the case.
e.g. Bob has allergies, and he sneezes loudly and often. Everyone at work sympathizes with him, but as the day goes by everyone starts dreading the next one, Alice The Stoic starts showing teeth every time Bob sneezes, Carl the Nice Guy starts to fantasize about how easy it would be to strangle Bob, etc. The solution they find is to put him to work in an isolated office where his sneezes won't interrupt, which isn't great for Bob but it lets the rest of the team work.
Edited by Chabal2openWar between different deities creations
Different gods create their own types of life, which fight.
Example being Evangelion where Humans, created by lilith, engage in war against the Angels, created by adam.
openImagining person is there
An on-screen depiction where one character imagines another character is there, and so you have a scene with both actors in it, but it's understood that one isn't "really" there.
Like there's a scene where Alice interacts with Bob, who died or is gone. If there are other characters in the scene, they cannot see Bob, only Alice can. This is a representation of Alice working through her thoughts and feelings about Bob and his death. It's not Hallucinations, per se. It's understood more as Alice imagining Bob, or having intrusive thoughts of "Bob would say X were he here." She knows he's not really there.
openFlanderization Projection
Similar to Psychological Projection, but instead of "everyone thinks and acts like me", it's "everyone thinks and acts the way I think they do". Basically, when Bob needs to put himself in Alice's shoes, he uses the flanderized (often insultingly so) version rather than his own viewpoint, and is just as wrong.
e.g.
- Alice is Bob's adult daughter's girlfriend, which he does not approve of (Bob lives in a small town in the Deep South and believes homosexuals drag innocents to Hell with them). When Alice is known to have gone missing he suggests searching bars, drug dens and other places where lowlifes live, since to him that's where his imagined version of Alice spends her days.
- Carl is asked what to get his coworker Diana for her birthday. Since she works in accounting and says she enjoys it, Carl answers "a high-end calculator", since his imaginary version of Diana does accounting for fun (and since Accountants Are Boring, can't imagine her wanting to go on a tropical vacation).
- Ed is on vacation in Yosemite, when he runs into a bear. Since he thinks All Animals Are Dogs, he tries throwing a stick for it to catch and gets mauled.
openAddictive Ability
A superpower or ability is treated as addictive, usually with the kind of phrases associated with drugs ("I can quit whenever I want", "Give me the X, I need the X!", etc.)
In Nodwick, Artax looks into a magic orb that gives omniscience and can't go back to only seeing what's in front of him.
openTrope pertaining to a character dreaming about someone they haven't met
Character A meets Character B in real life. They describe the encounter to Character C. Character C later dreams about Character B. Character B has a significantly different personalty and appearance in the dream compared to real life, owing to the fact it is only based on Character A's description. Is there a trope that can describe this for Character B's character page?
openAffectionate face touch
When a character place in his hand on his loves face in a sign of affection or understanding,protection , romance, or love.
openWhat would this trope be called?
Character A and Character B chatting until they suddenly hear loud rap/rock music being blasted from a car pulling up. The person then steps out of the vehicle with a cold/arrogant look on their face.
openTwirl of love
When the taller lover grabs his love and effortlessly twists and spins around in a romantic embrace.
openKilling someone to spare them a worse death later.
It's like a Mercy Kill, only the "mercy" part hasn't happened to the victim yet. There are several possible scenarios:
-Let's say Tony knows his rivals are closing in on his friend Nino, and if they catch Nino, they will torture him to death. In this scenario there is no other way out other than Tony killing Nino himself quick and painless.
-A mother finds out her son has a terminal illness. He's fine now, but it will wreck him later. So she poisons him. I'd think this falls more in line with Mercy Kill than the first example, but maybe not.
In either case, the core idea is sparing a lot of suffering for the victim later by killing them now.
Edited by neckinhalfopenAre there tropes for this
Is there a list of tropes for a You Tube video called “Sing Official Trailer #1 (2016) - Scarlett Johansson, Matthew Mc Conaughey Movie HD”
openBe the Brush!
Not to be confused for Body Paint, when painting takes a level of extreme. Say an artist has a big canvas, and the artist covers their body in paint, and smash their body across the canvas, making a great art piece!
openHello “MyName IsJack”
Do you know the trope where someone mistakes the name of someone with the words they used.
For example in TAWOG,
Richard: Who’s your friend? Gumball: It’s me Dad. Richard: a hello “Its Me Dad”
And in Disenchantment,
Referee: What’s your name? Zerg: It’s King Zerg ya jerk. Referre King Zorch Yajerk!
openMocking the Outfit
It's like Atrocious Alias, but for an outfit. It's an outfit so bad or so silly that they are mocked for it In-Universe or told to go back and change.
I'm thinking of like the time Deadpool went into a laughing fit over voodoo practitioner Black Talon because he looked like a chicken.
openSeize the inspiration
Is there a trope (or trivia item) in which a writer seizes an idea as it occurs to them, by writing it down at once?
Roald Dahl describes how he kept a notebook of one-sentence plot ideas, writing them down as they occurred to him, and that every book of his started out in this way.
I don't think we have a trope for when a warrior and a diplomat are part of a Red Oni, Blue Oni duo. Sort of like Combat, Diplomacy, Stealth, but without Stealth, and it's two characters.
Unless Athens and Sparta can apply to characters.